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The Onslow Literacy Council will close on Dec. 31, 2025. We thank you for your support and urge continued investment in education.

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Time is running out to get your Easter Ham! The deadline to order is April 11. Any questions?
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Proceeds benefit our adult literacy program.

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Our first ever Easter Ham Sale. You can order on line for pick up in Jacksonville, NC the week before the holiday. Proceeds benefit our adult literacy program.

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Unique collectibles, original art, books and more. Proceeds benefit adult literacy. Sales open tomorrow!
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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Happy 70th birthday to Ruby Bridges! In 1960, she became the first Black American to attend a white elementary school in the South.

A visual reminder of what she faced every day.

—In 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black American to attend a white elementary school in the South. As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled.

Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Mrs. Henry taught her alone, "as if she were teaching a whole class."

Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, only allowed Ruby to eat food that she brought from home.

Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges said "scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us."

At her mother's suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks. #blackhistory #rubybridges

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Located in the town of Caviahue, Argentina, Salto del Agrio is a 60 meter high waterfall, which drops to a small green pool surrounded by yellow and red basaltic rocks

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[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Earth at night as seen from Space

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That’s the plan

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Michael Faraday built the first electric motor in 1821, but it was considered a mere curiosity until its principles powered the Industrial Revolution.

[NASA @NASA]

Are you planning to #ObserveTheMoon on Sept. 14?

In preparation for International Observe the Moon Night, we're hosting a @Twitch stream on Thursday, Sept. 12, featuring astrophotographers and NASA experts! Tune in at 4pm ET: https://t.co/rB2BPVIQjf

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Storm of a trillion stars... The Great Andromeda Galaxy

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

When a Lioness friend is happy to see you

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[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

"Godmother of Rock 'n' Roll" Sister Rosetta Tharpe performing "Didn't it rain, children" (1964)

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

What’s up? Not the ground pangolin. It spends most of its time on the ground, creating underground burrows to snooze in during daylight. At night, it uses its long tongue to slurp up insects. When threatened, it can roll up into a ball, protecting its soft body from predators.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1957, Nashville's all-white Hattie Cotton Elementary School was destroyed by dynamite blast when black kids integrated the school.

—On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members—including one local minister—organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools. Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two Black children walking to the school. Outside three different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud, a white minister, sought to dissuade white parents from allowing their children to be educated alongside Black children by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation.

The next day, 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. Patricia Watson, the one Black elementary student who had been in class the previous morning, did not return. No Black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing.

Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for three years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few Black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones.

Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as Black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs calling segregation the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated.

By the morning of September 9, out of the 126 Black children eligible to attend all-white elementary schools in their zones, only 19 Black children matriculated. Reverend Stroud gathered crowds at Glenn Elementary to preach about the evils of integration, and white people in cars outside of Jones Elementary held signs emblazoned with KKK iconography and Biblical quotes. As opposition grew throughout the morning, white mobs crowded the sidewalks and threw rocks and bottles at Black children and their parents who attempted to pass through the crowd. By the end of the day, half of the white students at Glenn Elementary School—nearly 250 children—had not arrived, as white parents chose to deny their children education rather than permit them to learn alongside Black children.

That evening, 300 white people gathered downtown and continued to threaten Black families who sent their children to school. They strung an effigy in blackface from a stoplight with a note pinned to its chest that read “this could be you.” As the mob around Fehr Elementary grew to at least 400, white people burned two outbuildings located on the property of a Black family that had sent their daughter to the school. The mob also continued to burn crosses on lawns of Black families who had dared to enroll their students that morning.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The Earth's magnetic field deflecting 1.5 million tons of solar material shoot off the sun at 100 miles per second. Courtesy:NASA

[Science Is Fun @sciencefunn]

Pythagorean theorem discovered around 500 BC

People before 500 BC:

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🏅 WNDB has been selected as the 2024 @librarycongress Literacy Awards Program American Prize recipient!

We thank Library of Congress for this tremendous honor!

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A new study from North Carolina researchers shows some fish in Jordan Lake and the Haw River contain different levels of toxic chemicals known as PFAS.

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